“As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists…” — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives,… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“The greatest influence over content was necessity--they had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“...looking back, has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you?' 'Not entirely.' 'Did you enjoy any of it?' 'I liked going… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
“I built and I built— heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not a single… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
“What is wrong with guys? Half are molting; half are nothing but undergrowth.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share
“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp,… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.” — Tom Rachman Copy Share
“She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change. He'd be distressed if she were cool-- it'd be as if his flesh… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky… — Tom Rachman Copy Share
